Adoption of open source software in governmental context: A positivistic case study in china

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Guo, Xunhua ^a   Huang, Yan ^b   Zhang, Nan ^c   Chen, Guoqing ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Governmental organizations; Information technology adoption; Open source software; Positivistic case study

Indexed keywords

BEIJING , CHINA; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; INFLUENCE MECHANISM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS; POSITIVISTIC CASE STUDY; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 84870964902     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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